Dear Friends of HUCE,
This email contains event listings for Thursday, October 25 through
Wednesday, November 7, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site,
www.environment.harvard.edu <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/> , for the
most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the
semester.
If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe (!) from
this list, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment:
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu.
Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and
anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the
community. We hope to see you soon and often.
Highlights:
*Monday, October 29: The Canada Program presents a special seminar with
Peter Irniqu, Inuit, activist and former Commissioner of the Territory of
Nunavut, An Inuit Perspective on Climate Change
*Monday, October 29: The Changing Carbon Cycle: How Fast Will Atmospheric
CO2 Increase?, with Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences,
co-director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California
Berkeley.
*Thursday, November 1: Family Friendly Nights at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics presents "Our Place in Space," with Meredith Hughes.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 10/25/2007
4:00p
OEB Seminar: The origins of complexity: Mechanisms of functional evolution
in the steroid human receptors
Joe Thornton, University of Oregon
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu
6:00p - 7:00p
Student Speaker Series: Rural Community Water Systems in India:
Opportunities and Challenges for Public Private Partnerships
Anjalli Ravi Kumar, KSG student, will be presenting, followed by a
discussion
Belfer Center Library, 3rd floor Littauer, Kennedy School of Government,
Cambridge, MA
7:00p
Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights
"Our Place in Space," with speaker Meredith Hughes
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Contact: pubaffairs@cfa, 617-495-7461
7:30p
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Monthly Observatory Nights
"Mars Phoenix: Following the Water," with Rebecca Siddons & Michael
Krushinsky
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, 617-495-7461
Friday 10/26/2007
8:30a - 9:30a
Friday Chalktalk: "Harnessing Environmental Diversity for Improving
Microbial Biofuel Production"
Speaker: Dr. Gautam Dantas, The Church Lab, Harvard Medical School, Mass
General Hospital
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-8643
12:30p - 1:30a
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
"Considerations of Acute and Chronic effects of Chlorine Gas Exposure."
Kenneth R. Spaeth
Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Contact: Ann Backus, abackus(a)hohp.harvard.edu, 617-432-3327
Sunday 10/28/2007
7:00p
Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast
Featuring Dr. Peter C. Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Will
Brownsberger, State Representative
Belmont High School, 221 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA
Contact: sustainablebelmont(a)gmail.com
Monday 10/29/2007
11:30a
Canada Program Special Seminar: An Inuit Perspective on Climate Change
Peter Irniq, Inuit, activist, and former Commissioner of the Territory of
Nunavut
RSVP: canada(a)wcfia.harvard.edu, 617 495-3671
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:30p - 1:30p
Presentation: Graduate Environmental Professional Studies at Duke University
Lisa Rattray, MEM, Admissions Officer, Duke University Nicholas School of
the Environment & Earth Sciences
HUCE Meeting Room 318, 3rd floor, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Blumenthal Rattray, lisa.rattray(a)duke.edu
4:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Check seminar Web site for speaker information.
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jason Miller, miller(a)eps.harvard.edu
4:15p
Lectures in the Sciences: The Changing Carbon Cycle
Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences, co-director, Berkeley
Institute of the Environment
Lecture Hall A, Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA.
Contact: 617-495-8600
6:30p
Convergence of Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Security
A conversation with Mr. Theodore Roosevelt IV, hosted by Lehman Brothers
The Charles Hotel, Longfellow Room, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, MA.
RSVP required: Carey Starno, carey.starno(a)lehman.com
Tuesday 10/30/2007
9:00a - 4:00p
Tipping Point grassroots training day
Appalachian Mountain Club, Cabot Auditorium, 5 Joy St., Boston, MA
Contact: Alana Miller, amiller(a)smith.edu, 858 405-5613
12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
Carol Shearer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
6:00p
Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series
"Ethnobotany: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicine" with Dr. Michael Balick,
Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu
Thursday 11/1/2007
12:00p
Biological Anthropology Seminar: Social learning and traditions in wild
capuchin monkeys
Speaker: Dr. Susan Perry, Department of Anthropolgy, UCLA
HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact:
www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
4:00p
OEB Seminar: Reproductive conflict, demography, and the evolution of
menopause
Speaker Dr. Michael Cant, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu
7:00p
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights
"Our Place in Space," with Meredith Hughes
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.edu, 617 495-7461
Friday 11/2/2007
11:30a - 12:30p
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Dominik Kulakowski Clark University
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978 724-3302
12:00p
Atmospheric Seminar Series
Jennifer Harden, United States Geological Survey
Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: Nicole Smith-Downey, nsdowney(a)fas.harvard.edu
Saturday 11/3/2007
8:00a
Real Food Summit: Students Mobilizing for Just and Sustainable Food
Contact: Marissa Grossman, mgrossman(a)thefoodproject.org, 617 442-1322 x19
Sunday 11/4/2007
2:00p - 3:00p
Sunday Family Program: ¡Descubriendo la Biodiversidad! Learning about
Biodiversity!
Speakers Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045
4:00p - 5:00p
Transcriptional Control of Energy Homeostasis
Bruce M. Spiegelman, Professor of Cell Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard Medical School
KSG G-2, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA.
Contact: Janice Stenger , jstenger(a)hsph.harvrd.edu, 617-432-4822
Monday 11/5/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:00p
CSRI New Directions in Regulation Seminar Series
Robert Stavins, Kennedy School of Government: "Proposal for a U.S.
Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change."
Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Nash, 617 384-7325
12:15p - 1:30p
Cell Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Michael Skinner, Director & Professor Center for Reproductive
Biology, Washington State University Pullman
Cannon Room, Building C, Rm. 114, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Contact: Joan Ruderman , 617-432-1104
4:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Check seminar Web site for speaker information.
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu
Tuesday 11/6/2007
9:30a - 11:00a
Continental Scale Wind Power: Resources and Variations in Production
Speaker: Juha Kiviluoma, ETIP Fellow
L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of
Government
Contact: ETIP Coordinator, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, 617 496-5584,
www.energytechnologypolicy.org
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.energytechnologypolicy.org>
12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
Kyra N. Krakos, Washington Univ., St. Louis
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:30p
Carl Linnaeus: A 300-Year Legacy, Systema Naturae Display
One day exhibit of Systema Naturae
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617 495-3045
Wednesday 11/7/2007
4:15p - 5:30p
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Kate Emans Sims, Harvard University. The Effects of Protected Areas on Land
Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand.
L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617 496-8054
7:00p
Harvard Climate Change Colloquium: God and the Climate: Reaching Out to
Evangelicals
Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, National Association
of Evangelicals
Institute of Politics Conference Room, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact:
www.greencrimson.com
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.greencrimson.com>
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
<mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425